What job would you get before an economic depression?

[Picklechu]

Anything in the public sector. Especially if it's a civil service role. You basically have to actively try to get fired.

 

[Catboyz]

I can back the trades and the relying on your community / church, best if you are self employed in construction / building maintenance and you are good. People will always find money to fix a leaky roof, broken door or malfunctionning furnace.

I think there is also room for some kind of parallel economy for when they start to crack down on cash, like bartering and if you have good skills and reputation you'll def make it.

 

[CWCissey]

Bailiff
Taxman
Undertaker

 

[Clotso Coof]

Liquor store owner in a working class neighborhood. There's always money for booze. You sell the cheaper liquor when the economy sucks, but it's still a money maker.

I like tradie ladies. They tend to be reliable workers. Something about the kind of personality that leads you there in the first place.

They're women who actively avoided the pink collar jobs, because they don't want to work with catty bitches. They tend to be hardworking, honest, no-bullshit women.

More future minded? Learn water treatment. We're going to need it. Learn the whole process from extraction to wastewater treatment. Small modular processes are better.

Great advice, and world wide applicability. People would be surprised to know how many 3rd world cities are building impressive water treatment plants.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

You don't need to worry about money if you're smart tbh. Wagies horrify me, I really can't stand them. I used to make $800 a week and was able to save $200 of it and invest it into bitcoin. Trick is, don't sell only buy. Holding is unironically the best investment strategy. If rent is making you that poor maybe you shouldn't live where you are lol honestly, littering in stores will help stop this economic depression because it will create jobs

 

[tehpope]

You don't need to worry about money if you're smart tbh. Wagies horrify me, I really can't stand them. I used to make $800 a week and was able to save $200 of it and invest it into bitcoin. Trick is, don't sell only buy. Holding is unironically the best investment strategy. If rent is making you that poor maybe you shouldn't live where you are lol honestly, littering in stores will help stop this economic depression because it will create jobs

Replace bitcoin with stonks and its good advice. Bitcoin and other Cryptos are decent investments but it shouldn't be your only basket.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

Replace bitcoin with stonks and its good advice. Bitcoin and other Cryptos are decent investments but it shouldn't be your only basket.

Lol I've only been investing in one coin. If you invest enough money you can keep the price artificially high and introduce liquidity when the market needs it. Stocks is just another word for a shitcoin. You may as well move your XRp to monero, it's just spyware at this point.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Forget Bitcoin or stocks or savings. If you actually believe in runway inflation, you just buy and hoard shit TODAY.

 

[MadStan]

Janitor.

There is always shit to clean up.

 

[Skitarii]

A job that helps me disable the power to people's houses and loot them

 

[Alex Krycek]

Crab Person

 

[The Foxtrot]

Forget Bitcoin or stocks or savings. If you actually believe in runway inflation, you just buy and hoard shit TODAY.

I emphasize this, and add in that "shit" means "physical, useful assets that you can lay your hands on right now". I've never understood people who say that crypto is "the future!" or that it's some sort of insurance. Crypto's about as useful as my PLEX in EVE Online, it's fucking video game money. I can't take my virtual bitcoins and trade them for a loaf of bread or bottle of water, and that is what you really want and need during an economic downturn.

 

[timewave0]

Suicide booth sales and maintenance

 

[Some Badger]

I’d probably try to squeeze back into logistics like I did during covid. Just because people’s spending power will crater doesn’t mean you don’t need a full team of workers to unload, sort and load up trucks. You’d be surprised how much industrial-grade hardware and machine parts get processed through the same facilities as funko pops and dragon dildos.

 

[Megatardingo]

Antidepressant

 

[tehpope]

Forget Bitcoin or stocks or savings. If you actually believe in runway inflation, you just buy and hoard shit TODAY.

You can do stinks, hoarding, and metals all at the same time. I've been buying food in case shtf.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

You can do stinks, hoarding, and metals all at the same time. I've been buying food in case shtf.

I'm personally not optimistic about the stock market, but I'm not liquidating my 401ks or anything like that. I am just not putting more money into it than is required to get the match. I do have lots of food and the means to make many things myself. A good physical library is also important.

 

[Coolio55]

Just looked into gravedigging, they use construction vehicles for it now. If they still did it with a shovel the old fashioned way I'd sign up.

And you need all these degrees and qualifications in shovel health and safety and grief councilling JUST TO DIG A FUCKING HOLE.

 

[RollerGator]

And you need all these degrees and qualifications in shovel health and safety and grief councilling JUST TO DIG A FUCKING HOLE.

Back in my day only things a gravedigger needed was his shovel, and a flask of whiskey!

 

[Meiwaku]

Mortician. People die no matter what.